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mining, road construction, and illegal logging is transforming the terrestrial landscape, with negative consequences from coastal runoff. Awareness of such hazards
have motivated Beteo and Ma’ya communities to link with outsiders to promote environmental protection. For now, sasi and other conservation regimes provide ways
to limit resource degradation, as well as an institutional structure for transmitting
cultural values about people and the places they cherish.
Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Dedi Adhuri, Hamid Toha and Tony Rudyansjah for logistical and research support. In Raja Ampat, Reuben Sauyai, Yohanes Goram, Abraham
Gaman, Kris Thebu, Yudas Sauyai, Enggelina Dimara, Yeskel Dawa, Wolter Gaman, Martin Makusi,
Anache Goram, Angela Beer, Salman Wiyai and Mety Mongdong provided critical insights and
connections. Research was supported by Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
(P022A1300-(20)-007), National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education and Research
Training (IGERT) Fellowship, “Global Change, Marine Ecosystems, and Society” (Award number
0903551), Waitt Foundation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States-Indonesia Society,
and UC San Diego Department of Anthropology.
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427122
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management. Ecol Appl 10(5):1251–1262
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and change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
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Papua. J Manaj Hutan Trop 20(2):131–139
Brosius JP (1999) Analyses and interventions: anthropological engagements with environmentalism. Curr Anthropol 40(3):277–310. https://doi.org/10.1086/200019
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Indonesia. In: Otto T, Pedersen P (eds) Tradition and agency: tracing cultural continuity and
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mining, road construction, and illegal logging is transforming the terrestrial landscape, with negative consequences from coastal runoff. Awareness of such hazards
have motivated Beteo and Ma’ya communities to link with outsiders to promote environmental protection. For now, sasi and other conservation regimes provide ways
to limit resource degradation, as well as an institutional structure for transmitting
cultural values about people and the places they cherish.
Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Dedi Adhuri, Hamid Toha and Tony Rudyansjah for logistical and research support. In Raja Ampat, Reuben Sauyai, Yohanes Goram, Abraham
Gaman, Kris Thebu, Yudas Sauyai, Enggelina Dimara, Yeskel Dawa, Wolter Gaman, Martin Makusi,
Anache Goram, Angela Beer, Salman Wiyai and Mety Mongdong provided critical insights and
connections. Research was supported by Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
(P022A1300-(20)-007), National Science Foundation Integrated Graduate Education and Research
Training (IGERT) Fellowship, “Global Change, Marine Ecosystems, and Society” (Award number
0903551), Waitt Foundation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States-Indonesia Society,
and UC San Diego Department of Anthropology.
References
Adger W, Barnett J et al (2013) Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation.
Nature Clim Change 3:112–117. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1666
Adhuri DS (2013) Selling the sea: a study of conflict over marine tenure in Kei Islands, Eastern
Indonesia. ANU Press, Canberra
Agrawal A (2005) Environmentality: community, intimate government, and the making of environmental subjects in Kumaon, India. Curr Anthropol 46(2):161–190. https://doi.org/10.1086/
427122
Andaya L (1993) The world of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the early modern period. University
of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
Aritonang JS, Steenbrink, KA (eds) (2008) A history of Christianity in Indonesia. Studies in
Christian Mission, vol. 35. Brill, Leiden
Arnold LM (2018) Grammar of Ambel, an Austronesian language of Raja Ampat, west New Guinea.
Dissertation, University of Edinburgh
Atmodjo E, Lamers M, Mol APJ (2019) Governing dynamics in marine conservation tourism in
Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Tour Plan & Dev. https://doi.org/10.1080/21568316.2019.1686652
Awuah-Nyamekye S (2019) Climate change and indigenous Akan religio-cultural practices lessons
for policy-makers and implementers in environmental conservation in Ghana. Worldviews-Glob
Relig Cult Ecol 23(1):59–86
Berkes F, Colding J, Folke C (2000) Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive
management. Ecol Appl 10(5):1251–1262
Berkes F, Folke C (2003) Navigating social-ecological systems: building resilience for complexity
and change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Boli P, Yulianda F et al (2014) Benefits of sasi for conservation of marine resources in Raja Ampat,
Papua. J Manaj Hutan Trop 20(2):131–139
Brosius JP (1999) Analyses and interventions: anthropological engagements with environmentalism. Curr Anthropol 40(3):277–310. https://doi.org/10.1086/200019
Bubandt N (2005) On the genealogy of Sasi: the transformations of an imagined tradition in Eastern
Indonesia. In: Otto T, Pedersen P (eds) Tradition and agency: tracing cultural continuity and
invention. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, pp 193–232